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Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Vatican City, 24 June 2014 (VIS) –
The secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue,
Fr. Miguel Ayuso Guixot MCCJ, and Fr. Markus Solo S.V.D., attache in
the same dicastery for Islam in Asia and the Pacific, will be in
Indonesia until 27 June in order to meet with various members of the
episcopal Conference, as well as the Commission for Interreligious
Dialogue and other Catholic institutions engaged in dialogue. They
will also visit Indonesia's most important Islamic organisations,
notably the Nahdlatul Ulama and the Muhammadiyah, and will also meet
the Council of the Ulama.

In the country with the largest Muslim
population in the world, this visit has the aim of implementing
interreligious dialogue within a context of respect and friendship,
as indicated by Pope Francis.

Vatican City, 24 June 2014 (VIS) –
The Holy Father has appointed Msgr. Skiper Bladimir Yanez Calvachi as
bishop of Guaranda (area 3,336, population 206,000, Catholics
187,700, priests 34, permanent deacons 6, religious 69), Ecuador. The
bishop-elect was born in Machachi, Ecuador in 1972 and was ordained a
priest in 1996. He holds a licentiate in dogmatic theology from the
Gregorian Pontifical University and has served in a number of
pastoral and administrative roles, including priest in various
parishes in the archdiocese of Quito, director of the historical
archive of the archdiocese,, notary of the ecclesiastical tribunal of
First Instance in Quito and chaplain of various higher colleges. He
is currently judge in the ecclesiastical tribunal of First Instance
in Quito, chancellor of the archdiocesan curia, editor of the
archdiocesan ecclesiastical bulletin, member of the metropolitan
cathedral chapter, priest of the parish of “San Juan Bautista” in
Sangolqui and episcopal vicar of the zone “Valle de los Chillos y
Machachi”.